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I've found my result quality has gone up dramatically now that I use extensions allowing me to block domains from google search results. It seems silly that I o
by cik 5y ago
I've found my result quality has gone up dramatically now that I use extensions allowing me to block domains from google search results. It seems silly that I ought have to do this, but Google has finally become useful again as a result.
- machiaweliczny 5y agoCould you provide name of this extension?
- fifnir 5y agoI use uBlacklist, it puts a little "block this domain from results" button next to google results
- orangepurple 5y agoI just installed this! Thanks for the suggestion! Don't forget to use ungoogled chromium if possible The only downside is you will have to load unpacked extensions instead of using the Chrome "store" and you will have to manually install Chromium updates from the same site: https://chromium.woolyss.com/ https://chromium.woolyss.com/
- dewey 5y ago> you will have to manually install Chromium updates from the same site That sounds like a bad idea for something like a browser that should get security updates as fast as possible.
- tedivm 5y agoWhy not just use firefox?
- eru 5y agoSome people might still prefer Chromium for other reasons? Eg there are performance and memory differences between the two browsers, and different extensions are available.
- cik 5y agoI use Personal Blocklist (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklistnot-by/cbbbhelcpfjhdcncigdlkabmjbgokmpg https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...). Works wonders
- realAzazello 5y agoI use the userscript "Google Hit Hider by Domain (Search Filter / Block Sites)" by Jefferson Scher, whom you may know as one of the top support specialist at Mozilla: http://www.jeffersonscher.com/gm/google-hit-hider/ http://www.jeffersonscher.com/gm/google-hit-hider/ "GHHbD" is a precursor to uBlacklist; and was for many years THE replacement to blocking sites on Google Search after Google removed the built-in function. It also has a 'Block' button next to the search results (remember, the script existed long before uBlacklist), which allows to grey-out or hide results, based on subdomains down to the base domain. The disadvantage of GHHbD is that it doesn't handled regex filtering. However one of its many advantages is that it does block TLDs: https://greasyfork.org/en/forum/discussion/comment/55821/#Comment_55821 https://greasyfork.org/en/forum/discussion/comment/55821/#Co...
- Jenk 5y agoAre these client-side only extensions that are manipulating the DOM, or are they somehow feeding parameters to google to exclude domains (by e.g., automatically suffixing a series of "-site:blah.com"s to the query)?
- BitwiseFool 5y agoI don't know if I'm secretly being A/B tested, but Google seems to ignore - and "" terms in my queries from time to time.
- AnyTimeTraveler 5y agoI have also noticed that and it has been really difficult to search for obscure error messages now.
- mattarm 5y agoThey manipulate the search result DOM. uBlacklist is the one I use and it'll manipulate the search result page telling you when something has been blocked, allows you to unlbock that site, etc.
- dcminter 5y agoGoogle used to let you do this itself when you were logged in. I never understood why they removed that; surely the information on what domains were deemed unwanted was valuable!?
- ouid 5y agoGoogle's customers want access to the product, this would be denying them that access.
- dcminter 5y agoSo I assume by customer you mean advertisers and by product you mean the users carrying out searches. For their commercial search results I'll grant you that there's an incentive. But for their non-commercial search results why would they care? That's how it used to work, you couldn't delete a domain from the paid results, but you could make it disappear from the unpaid ones.
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